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Ashley browsed through the pages of her geometry book aimlessly and seemed to have given up trying. The math exercises she's been desperately trying to solve are due for submission the next morning and she's far from finish. The lessons have jumbled in her young mind and the more she crammed, the farther she got from finding the correct answers...
If Ashley will go through her classes like this, lesson after lesson, she will experience skill gaps. Skill gaps happen when a student has not yet mastered the required skills at a certain level to manage progressive learning. It is a deficiency in fundamental skills. To illustrate, a child may have trouble with multiplication because he still has not fully understood the concept of addition. The next thing you know, she's in college and could not get through Math 101 and Physics 101 general subjects.
The situation described above is not an isolated case. In fact, many kids go through the same ordeal year in and year out. As in many schools, the class sizes have been growing and putting a heavier load on teachers, who now have less and less contact time with each student. As a result, students feel disconnected from school and are failing classes.
Helping kids make it through each day of their school work is a function now assigned to us, their parents. However, the toll of our own jobs and our other responsibilities force us to seek additional support for our children. Without a doubt, the perfect partner we can give our children are the experts in the field, the academic tutors. Now our role has evolved into being the diligent searcher for ¡°The One¡± who could help our children with their academics.
How do we choose the right tutor for our children?
There are different modes of tutoring:
1) HOME-BASED (FREELANCE) TUTORING ¨C the tutor meets the student in the student's home on a scheduled appointment
Pros:
- Parents can monitor their children's sessions in their own home
- One-on-one sessions with the tutor
Cons:
- The tutor rates per hour are expensive
- The tutor has only one subject expertise (either a Math tutor, a Science tutor, or an English tutor)
- Getting a home tutor for each major subject is very expensive and inconvenient
- Freelance tutors do not have as much educational resources and support as center-based tutors
- Students must stick to their tutor appointments to get help on their lessons
- Transportation costs of tutors are shouldered by parents
2) CENTER-BASED TUTORING ¨C the students meet with the tutors in a tutoring center or in the tutor's home
Pros:
- Tutors are guided and monitored by the center administrators
- May be less expensive than home-based tutoring
Cons:
- Children go home late from the centers
- Students are tutored in groups, not too different from the classroom setup they have in school
- Parents can't monitor their children's sessions
- Students have to wait for their tutor appointments to get help on their lessons
- Much of student's valuable time are spent in traveling
- Transportation costs of students are additional expenses for parents
Undeniably, both options have quite a number of disadvantages. What if I tell you that parents now have an option that sort of merges the benefits of home-based and center-based tutoring to eliminate the disadvantages? Won't that be tutor heaven? Fortunately, another option now exists, the ONLINE TUTORING option.
ONLINE TUTORING has emerged the world over to meet the growing demand for education to provide opportunities at a comparatively low cost, and meet the afterschool support needs of students. The methodology of online tutoring often involves a multi-media approach to design, develop and implement tutoring sessions.
Online academic tutoring is made possible now in the Philippines by the team behind the www.TUTORS.ph website!
A relatively new concept in the country, tutors.ph not only has the ability to support students from their immediate pressing academic needs anytime and anywhere in a cost effective way but can also attend to skill gaps of students through benchmarking techniques, assessments, repeated exercises, and progress reporting. Along with benefits of convenience, the development of academic resources exclusive to members, make tutors.ph the best option for students.
What are the advantages of availing tutoring services with tutors.ph?
- Premium, one-on-one tutoring session with an academic tutor (experts in Math, Science and English)
- Tutoring sessions are conducted in the comfort and safety of your own home, anytime!
- Their exceptional tutors are extensively trained, guided, and monitored by tutors.ph administrators
- Parents can monitor the children's sessions, and more importantly their progress
- Personalized study approach that is appropriate to the student's pace of learning
- Makes use of an award-winning, live, interactive e-learning platform, including an
interactive whiteboard facility (chat, talk, share files and applications with the tutor)
used by international academic institutions.
More than coming to a tutoring center, joining tutors.ph gives students privileges of belonging to an exclusive community of lifelong learners where there is active involvement of the community builders ¨Cthe tutors.ph administrators, who are parents just like you.
As the clich¨¦ goes, let your kids try it to believe it. Take advantage of this technology.
Registration is FREE and membership options are available.